Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics

26, 1, pp. 121-133, Warsaw 1988

Rozwój i deformacja warstwy wirowej indukowanej za profilem aerodynamicznym przez przepływającą strukturę wirową

Jerzy Świrydczuk

The are given results of the study of development and deformation of the unsteady vortex layer formed behind a trailing edge of the symmetric airfoil in a plane parallel flow. The changing intensity of the layer is induced by a single concentrated vortex passing by the airfoil. The theoretical calculations performed on the basis of the construction of the Kirchhoff-Routh function indicate that the generated layer forms in a short period of time a new concentrated vortex of comparable intensity but of rotation opposite to that represented by the primary vortex. The experimental investigations, conducted in a flow of the velocity U=2.1 m/s and Reynolds number based on the airfoil chord length Re=4x$10^3$, agree with the theoretical results in some cases of the vortex-airfoil configuration.